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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOfficeSource and KOffice
From:       Bart Coppens <kde () bartcoppens ! be>
Date:       2008-01-14 17:17:48
Message-ID: 200801141817.49078.kde () bartcoppens ! be
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On Monday 14 January 2008 17:45, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > Regardless of the fact that I still do not believe KOffice should be
> > trademarkable at all,
> why?
I still believe 'KOffice' resembles the generic 'Office' too closely (for an 
Office Suite). I mean, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc, they at least add a word 
in front of it. Apparently Apple gets away with this kind of 'single letter 
prefix-trademarking', but I still think it is 'wrong' that it is possible 
(blame my naive worldview) :-)

> ah, you mean it should have a liberal licensing program? well, the problem
> right now is we have no outwardly visible licensing program. we do need to
> fix that.
Yes, and yes.

> who would do the evaluation?
Obviously active KOffice people should participate, perhaps assisted by some 
KDE eV people. This would become a problem if all active KOffice developers 
would be employed by the company, though, since it would lose any objectivity 
an evaluation might ask for.

> what would constitute "significant damage"?
For example, MS contracts them to write a closed-source set of KOffice filters 
for OOXML, and then would release some press fluff about how these filters 
are better than ODF import or so. (Unlikely to happen given that even KWord 
is GPLed these days, but it's an example.)

Bart
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